CVE-2020-1645

Junos OS: MX Series: Services card might restart when DNS filtering is enabled

State
Published
Severity
8.3 High
Published
Jul 17, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Nov 4, 2019

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Description

When DNS filtering is enabled on Juniper Networks Junos MX Series with one of the following cards MS-PIC, MS-MIC or MS-MPC, an incoming stream of packets processed by the Multiservices PIC Management Daemon (mspmand) process, responsible for managing "URL Filtering service", may crash, causing the Services PIC to restart. While the Services PIC is restarting, all PIC services including DNS filtering service (DNS sink holing) will be bypassed until the Services PIC completes its boot process. If the issue occurs, system core-dumps output will show a crash of mspmand process: root@device> show system core-dumps -rw-rw---- 1 nobody wheel 575685123 <Date> /var/tmp/pics/mspmand.core.<*>.gz This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S8; 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R2-S4, 18.3R3-S1; 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R2-S5, 18.4R3; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S3, 19.3R3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S3, 19.4R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS releases prior to 17.3R2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Ljuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362 Race Condition (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 17.3R2Not affected
  • 17.4Not affected
  • 18.1Not affected
  • 18.2Not affected
  • 17.3 to before 17.3R3-S8Affected
  • 18.3 to before 18.3R2-S4, 18.3R3-S1Affected
  • 18.4 to before 18.4R2-S5, 18.4R3Affected
  • 19.1 to before 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3Affected
  • 19.2 to before 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R2Affected
  • 19.3 to before 19.3R2-S3, 19.3R3Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R1-S3, 19.4R2Affected

References

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